Man who used CNC mill to make untraceable guns sentenced to 41 months

A Sacramento, California, man was sentenced Thursday to over three years in prison for unlawful manufacture of a firearm and one count of dealing firearms.

Last year, Daniel Crowninshield pleaded guilty
to those counts in exchange for federal prosecutors dropping other
charges. According to investigators, Crowninshield, known online as "Dr.
Death," would sell unfinished AR-15 lower receivers, which customers
would then pay for him to transform into fully machined lower receivers
using a computer numerically controlled (CNC) mill. (In October 2014,
Cody Wilson, of Austin, Texas, who has pioneered 3D-printed guns, began selling a CNC mill called "Ghost Gunner," designed to work specifically on the AR-15 lower.)

"In order to create the pretext that the individual in such a
scenario was building his or her own firearm, the skilled machinist
would often have the individual press a button or put his or her hands
on a piece of machinery so that the individual could claim that the
individual, rather than the machinist, made the firearm," the government
claimed in its April 14 plea agreement.
Under federal law, it is allowed to manufacture your own firearm
(even with a CNC mill), but it is not allowed to do so for others
without proper licensing.

In a Thursday statement, Special Agent in Charge Jill A. Snyder,
of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said that Crowninshield
"owned and operated a machine shop where he allowed customers with
unknown backgrounds to use his machinery to unlawfully manufacture
firearms for profit. That activity posed a very dangerous threat to the
safety of our communities."

Man who used CNC mill to make untraceable guns sentenced to 41 months
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